Main Stage:
12:00 –
12:10 Announcements
12:10 –
12:30 Guest Reader: Author and Poet, Evelyn Lau
12:30 –
12:45 Poetry Readings: Word Whips North Shore Edition
12:45 – 1:00
Story Telling: Telling Tales
1:00 – 1:15
Performance Poetry: Main Street Slam
1:15 – 1:30
Multicultural Readings: World Poetry Reading Series
1:30 – 1:45 Announcements
1:45 – 2:15
♫♫ Local
Band
2:15 – 2:30 Poetry Readings:
Burnaby Writers’ Society
2:30 – 2:45
Poetry Readings: Word Whips
2:45 – 3:00 Featured Reader:
Californian Poet, Jabez Churchill
3:00 – 3:15
Performance Poetry: Wax Poetics
3:15 – 3:30
Announcements
3:30 – 4:00
♫♫ Local Band Melic Thrum
4:00
– 4:15 Performance Poetry: Thundering Word
4:15 – 4:30
Featured Reader: Poet, Jen Currin
4:30 – 4:45 Poetry
Readings: North Shore Writers
4:45 – 5:00 Story Telling: Listen,
Laugh, Enjoy Storytelling
5:00 – 5:15 Announcements
5:15 – 5:45
♫♫ Local Band Farm Team
(Matt Kennedy, guitar, mandolin, vox, Hugh Ellenwood, fiddle, vox, Cam Salay,
banjo, bass, vox)
5:45 – 6:00 Poetry & Story:
Bluemoon Reading Series
6:00 – 6:15 Performance Poetry:
Vancouver Poetry Slam
6:15 – 6:30 Author Readings:
Canadian Authors Association
6:30 – 6:40 Announcements
6:40 – 7:00 Dancers: Story Dance Performance by
Night and Day Dance - Diane Garceau & David Yates (dancers), Trina Ferguson
(narrator)
7:00– 7:15 Poetry Readings:
Poetry Around the World
7:15 – 7:35 Story Slam Competition (Audience Judges):
Host - Ivan Penaluna
7:35 – 7:50 Poetry Readings: High
Altitude
7:50 – 8:00 Announcements
Community
Stage:
1:00 – 1:20 Opening Reading:
Vancouver Poet Laureate George
McWhirter
1:20 - 2:00
Panel Discussion: Turning the Ordinary into the
Extraordinary mediated by Poet, Jen Currin. Panelists:
Joelene Heathcote and guests
2:00 – 2:20 Poetry Readings:
tba
2:20
– 2:40 Open Mic: sign up
on site
2:40
– 2:50 Announcements
2:50– 3:10
♫♫ Music & Spoken
Word: Speak and Sing: Trevor Spilchen
3:10
– 3:50 Panel Discussion: Most poetry
nowadays is just prose broken into shorter lines, has all the rhythm and
rhetoric gone to rap? mediated by
Vancouver Poet Laureate George McWhirter. Panelists:
Elizabeth Bachinsky, Jabez Churchill, Heidi Greco
3:50
– 4:10 Poetry Readings:
Heidi Greco, tba
4:10
– 4:30 Open Mic:
sign up on site
4:30 – 4:40
Announcements
4:40 – 5:20
Panel Discussion: The Future of Canadian
Publishing mediated by Fernanda Viveiros, Executive Director of the Federation
of BC Writers. Panelists:
Fiona Lehn and guests
5:20
– 5:40 Poetry Readings: tba
5:40 – 6:00
Open Mic: sign up on site
Children’s Stage:
1:00 – 1:15
Announcements
1:15 – 1:45
Puppets on Parade:
Mary Duffy, The Vancouver Public Library
1:45 – 2:15
Tradewind Books: Tiffany Stone & Christina
Leist
2:15 – 2:45 ♫♫
Music: David
Campbell
2:45 – 3:15 Author:
K.C. Dyer
3:15 – 3:45 Author:
James McCann
3:45 – 4:00
Announcements
4:00 – 4:30
Puppets on Parade:
Mary Duffy, The Vancouver Public Library
4:30 – 5:00
♫♫ Music: Robert Stelmach - a.k.a. Max
Tell accompanied by Chris Kelly
5:00 – 5:30
Performers: Tickle Trunk (Kari Winters & Lori Sherritt)
5:30 – 6:00
Readings: Vancouver Public Library Book Camp Readers
6:00 – 6:30 World Poetry Young Writers Open
Mic: sign up
Additional Activities…
Workshops:
(Pre-register with workshop instructors!-
Space is limited)
BASIC CHAPBOOK
DESIGN & MARKETING
Facilitated by poet, performer, and long-time graphic
designer, S.R. Duncan
Contact:
srduncan@shaw.ca
Time: 12:30 -2:00pm
Cost: $25.00
Be your own publisher. Join the ranks of literary giants
like Hunter S. Thompson, and Ray Bradbury and learn how to create
a chapbook (your very own professional-looking published booklet) step-by-step,
from editing through basic graphic design, right through to distribution.
We go on to
look at the benefits and pitfalls of self-publishing, offer various modern and
rare examples of this ancient type of publication, give you tips for marketing
and publicizing your book on a shoestring budget!
A basic
knowledge of computers and word processing programs like Microsoft Word is
required. Reference material provided.
CREATIVE DREAMING
Facilitated by Ariadne Sawyer, Co-founder of The World Poetry Reading Series and
Radio Show.
Time:
2:00 -
3:30pm Cost:
$25.00
This 1 ½ hour
workshop will provide: Techniques for creating a Dream Poetry/Writing Journal.
Focused creative dreaming techniques for poetry, music, art and writings. Using
focused dreaming to create. Using day dreaming as a bridge to the unconscious.
Day dreaming poetic/writing exercise. Bring paper, pens and your
imagination! Ariadne Sawyer, MA, C.P. has spent 12 years studying the brain and
human behaviour. She specializes in creativity and has worked as a consultant to
musicians, writers, painters, poets, dancers and even photographers. She is the
host and producer of the popular short radio program Creativity Rocks on the
World Poetry Café, CFRO. 102.7 FM which is heard around the world by internet
and satellite. Currently, she is facilitating a Creative dreaming Research
Project.Her latest book is: The Best of Creativity Rocks! Answers to Your
Creative Questions by World Poetry Publishing.
WRITING IN THE PARK
Facilitated by Ruth Kozak, member of The BC Association of
Travel Writers
Contact:
ruthaki1@shaw.ca
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 Cost:
$25.00
Ruth Kozak is a travel journalist and member of the B.C.
Association of Travel Writers. She teaches travel writing for the VSB
Continuing Education.
PANDORA’S COLLECTIVE
FACE PAINTING & ARTS & CRAFTS
(For Young Writers)
Express your inner self! Free face painting and crafts.
WORLD POETRY
“POETRY TREE” WRITING
TABLE
(For Young Writers)
The World Poetry Readings Series invites you to write a poem
and add it to the “Poetry Tree". Then, if you like, you can read it during the
World Poetry – “Poetry Tree” Readings. Volunteers will be at the table for
support and suggestions. Children can write a poem, decorate it and hang it up
to create a poetry forest. Twice during the day, they will have the opportunity
to read their work or have a friend or family member read it for them.
Festival Sponsors:
(The
sponsors list will be updated shortly. Thanks to all our sponsors for their
support.)
Financial Donations:
Burnaby Writers Society $75
Industrial Pacific
Alliance $500
Irene Livingston $50
James McCann $100
Joyce Statton $125
Gifts in Kind:
Performers
Gifts:
Army and Navy (saddle bags)
BC Poetry
(gift bags & CDs)
Capilano Review
(magazines)
Event Magazine (50 complimentary issues)
Kempton Dexter (3
CDs)
Geist (magazines)
James McCann (books)
Ben Nuttal-Smith (4
chapbooks)
Quills
Canadian Poetry Magazine (magazines)
Room (books)
Stepping Stone Cafe
(gift certificates)
Telling Tales
(books)
Three Day Novel
Contest (books)
Vancouver Review
(magazines)
Site
Equipment:
Industrial Pacific
Alliance (tents)
Tendu (tent)
Vancity (tent)
Supplies and
Misc:
BC Poetry
(balloons)
Industrial Pacific
Alliance (printing)
Nesters Market (complimentary water
bottles for performers)
Volunteers:
Alex Augustyn,
Phyllis Bassett, Mary Duffy, Ruth Kozak,
Rhonda Milne, Trevor Spilchen, Lorraine
Strand
Location: Lumberman's Arch, in beautiful Stanley Park
Concession
stands, public washrooms, the children's water park and the sea wall are all
just steps away!
Parking lots close to Lumberman’s Arch
The following Information was referenced from the Vancouver Aquarium’s web site.
Parking Lots
Pay parking is in effect in
parking lots and on roadways throughout Stanley Park. Pay parking is operated by
Central Parking Systems: Info line: 604-684-8922, Office: 604-684-6634 (Mon-Fri,
8am-5pm). Address: 1440 West Pender Street
Parking rates:
April-September - $2/hr or
$7/day.
Rates in effect 6 am to 9 pm
daily.
Meters accept coins, Visa and
Mastercard.
Public
Transportation
Translink Bus and Skytrain Routes. For your convenience the most common routes
are listed below:
1. Take the #19
Bus to Stanley Park, it runs along W. Pender.
2. Take the
#135, running along West Hastings, to Burrard Street and connect to the #19 bus
on W. Pender & Georgia.
3. Take the
Skytrain to Burrard Station and connect to the #19 bus on W. Pender & Georgia.
A one-zone ticket is $2.25
(subject to change). Check the
Translink website for other rates, planning your route, and general service
information.
Other
Transportation Options
Express Bus to Stanley Park
(Operating Daily March 15th - October 31st) This convenient service operates
between downtown Vancouver and Stanley Park. All passengers boarding the bus
will be charged $3.00. It’s
free of charge to all Horse-Drawn Tour
and Vancouver Aquarium customers.
View the Express Bus Schedule.
Stanley
Park Shuttle
A fun and free shuttle bus
service stopping at 14 of Stanley Park's most popular locations:
From June 20 to September 23,
2007.
From 10am to 6:30pm every 15
minutes.
Double
Decker Tours
For a bird's eye view of
Vancouver's city streets and Stanley Park take a Double Decker Tour. Between
April 21 to October 5, the bus boards every 40 minutes from most major tourist
attractions and hotels. For rates and schedules visit
www.grayline.ca/vancouver/
The
Vancouver Trolley Company
Arrive in classic style aboard a
trolley.
From March 15th - October 31st
every 30 minutes.
Every 60 minutes for the
remainder of the year.
Experience 15 stops around
Vancouver, including stops at some of the major downtown hotels. No reservations
are required. For rates and more schedules visit
www.vancouvertrolley.com
For more information regarding Stanley
Park, please visit the Vancouver Park Board
Stanley Park website.
2007 Summer Dream Literary Arts Festival
Photos:
Pictures
courtesy of Michael Sean Morris and James McCann.
